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<blockquote data-quote="catsclaw227" data-source="post: 5145847" data-attributes="member: 14197">This exact thing happened with with me and my group these past three months.&nbsp; I'm running Scales of War, we're about to start Den of the Destroyer (late heroic).&nbsp; Reading the many sandboxing threads, and feeling a bit nostalgic about the 1e games I ran, I offered up the idea to my group that we can open up the game a bit more, let them follow-up some threads or ideas that they liked and slowly migrate from the AP to a sandbox. They just sorta stared at me and then asked, &quot;You don't want to run the AP anymore?&quot;They clearly hadn't asked for this kind of change or a sandbox game, but I assumed that they would like it more because, well, the idea of a sandbox is really cool.But my players like the mostly scripted AP, and they also enjoy rambling along with the greater story.&nbsp; They said that they don't feel railroaded at all (that was a relief to hear, I was worried about that) and wondered where this idea was coming from.After a long discussion, one of their biggest concerns was that it would create more work for me.&nbsp; They didn't want their DM to become burned out, and/or want to switch things out again.&nbsp; They also said they didn't want to have situations where they were sitting around in a tavern asking each other &quot;What next?&quot;&nbsp; I explained that this likely would never happen, since there would be adventure hooks and idea hooks abound, but they didn't like that idea.&nbsp; It boiled down to wanting to be participants in a story, beating the crap out of monsters and taking their stuff, and generally enjoying a non-high maintenance game (whatever that is, I still am not sure what they meant by that.)I guess I have a beer-n-pretzels group that plays the game as if its important, but in reality they mostly like to just go with the flow.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="catsclaw227, post: 5145847, member: 14197"] This exact thing happened with with me and my group these past three months. I'm running Scales of War, we're about to start Den of the Destroyer (late heroic). Reading the many sandboxing threads, and feeling a bit nostalgic about the 1e games I ran, I offered up the idea to my group that we can open up the game a bit more, let them follow-up some threads or ideas that they liked and slowly migrate from the AP to a sandbox. They just sorta stared at me and then asked, "You don't want to run the AP anymore?" They clearly hadn't asked for this kind of change or a sandbox game, but I assumed that they would like it more because, well, the [I]idea[/I] of a sandbox is really cool. But my players like the mostly scripted AP, and they also enjoy rambling along with the greater story. They said that they don't feel railroaded at all (that was a relief to hear, I was worried about that) and wondered where this idea was coming from. After a long discussion, one of their biggest concerns was that it would create more work for me. They didn't want their DM to become burned out, and/or want to switch things out again. They also said they didn't want to have situations where they were sitting around in a tavern asking each other "What next?" I explained that this likely would never happen, since there would be adventure hooks and idea hooks abound, but they didn't like that idea. It boiled down to wanting to be participants in a story, beating the crap out of monsters and taking their stuff, and generally enjoying a non-high maintenance game (whatever that is, I still am not sure what they meant by that.) I guess I have a beer-n-pretzels group that plays the game as if its important, but in reality they mostly like to just go with the flow. [/QUOTE]

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